Video: Setting up a WordPress development environment

I created this course to help you build an online portfolio using WordPress as easily and effectively as possible. This is a jump right in kind of course, so if you have no previous experience using WordPress, you maybe a bit overwhelmed. But fret not my friends, we got you covered. If this is your first time using WordPress or you have only limited experience with a publishing platform, I recommend you check out the WordPress 3 Essential Training course right here on lynda.com. It'll give you a firm understanding of how WordPress works out of the box and what you can do with the application itself.

Learn how to build an advanced portfolio site that showcases various types of content using the free open-source application WordPress. Author Morten Rand-Hendriksen demonstrates creating custom post types, differentiating and classifying content with custom taxonomies, and working with custom post templates. The course also shows how to embed YouTube videos, build index pages, display the latest posts from different custom post types, and hook custom post types into separate themes. Exercise files accompany with the course.

Setting up a WordPress development environment

I created this course to help you build an online portfolio using WordPress aseasily and effectively as possible.This is a jump right in kind of course, so if you have no previous experienceusing WordPress, you maybe a bit overwhelmed.But fret not my friends, we got you covered.If this is your first time using WordPress or you have only limited experiencewith a publishing platform, I recommend you check out the WordPress 3 EssentialTraining course right here on lynda.com.It'll give you a firm understanding of how WordPress works out of the box andwhat you can do with the application itself.

In this course, we will be building an advanced child theme.If you're unfamiliar with the concept of child themes, or you want moreinformation about what they are before you get started, go check out the WordPress 3:Building Child Themes course also in the lynda.com library.These courses were created to form a natural progression, so watching them inorder will give you a firm footing for developing advanced WordPress websites.Throughout this course, I will be using the Google Chrome browser, but you canuse whatever browser you want, because, as we all know, browsers pretty muchall work the same way.

I will also be using the Eclipse code editor to write all my code. Again, youcan use whatever code editor you want, either WYSIWYG editor or just somethingsimple, like Notepad.Now for the WordPress part.WordPress is a dynamic web publishing application that lives on a web server.It consists of two main parts: the application itself and the database thatcontains all the contents.When developing a new WordPress site, it's always a good idea to set up aWordPress development environment on your local computer so you can do all thebuilding and testing first, before you published the website to the web.

This is not mandatory. You can follow this course and do everything on livesite on the web, but as we move along, you are likely to make changes that willbreak the site temporarily, and that's not a good experience for yourunsuspecting visitors.Setting up WordPress on your local computer is made easy using one ofseveral available tools.I use something called BitNami.You just go to bitnami.org, find the Download button, and then install it.You can also use WAMP if you are on a PC or MAMP, if you are on a Mac.If you want a further explanation of how to do this, you can either go checkout the WordPress 3 Essential Training course, where there's a complete walk-through of all theseprocesses, or you can go check out David Gassner's course, Installing Apache,MySQL and PHP, right in the lynda.com library.

When all this is done, you will be at the same point I am when we start, havingWordPress installed locally on your computer, and now you can start working.

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